Based on his autobiography, Li Cunxin was plucked from a poor Chinese village as an 11-year-old by Madame
Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet...
When was the last time you went to a movie in Mission Beach? Get along and support this
excellent move by the owners of Oceania
New era of Entertainment in Mission Beach
Movies Movies
Movies
Monday-Thursday 7.30pm Screenings of latest films
Keep up with latest and future screenings in Tully Times each week.
$12.50 and $7.50 pensioners and children
Movie Meal Deal - buy Main Meal - $5 off Movie Ticket
Air-conditioned
Innisfail and Mareeba Community Cabinet
The 21st Community Cabinet of the Bligh Government will be held in Innisfail and Mareeba on Sunday,
28 February and Monday 1 March 2010. Deputation requests.
Sunday 28 February - community forum
Everyone is welcome to attend the community forum which will be held at: Innisfail State College 45 Flying Fish Point Road
Innisfail, QLD
Monday 1 March - deputations
On Monday 1 March, Parliamentary Secretaries and Directors-General will be available for formal deputations from 9.00am
until 11.00am at: Mareeba PCYC 136 Walsh Street Mareeba, QLD
In both the informal and formal deputations, individuals and organisations can discuss issues directly with Ministers,
Parliamentary Secretaries and Directors-General.
All deputations are limited to 15 minutes.
To Age or Not to Age documentary
To Age or Not to Age documentary by Robert Kane Pappas will premiere in New York City on February 11, 2010.
Imagine a 120-year-old living like today’s 50 year-olds. Possible? Yes, according
to the scientists in Robert Kane Pappas’ new film. More ...
IBM: 5 Innovations that will Change Cities
in the Next 5 Years
Buildings that know
when they need to be fixed before something breaks; sensors that tell the fire department details of a fire before they receive
the emergency phone call; smart water and sewage systems that filter and recycle water. . . More ...
See
the modern city as it will be in 5 years time.
CASSOWARY Coast residents could be hit with a 9 per cent rates rise if the Federal Government does not help pay
for a replacement bridge in the heart of Innisfail, its mayor has warned. More ...
Mission Beach in Queensland, Australia invites tourists to 'Get laid' in
new ad campaign
A risque advertising campaign aimed at backpackers has caused a stir in Australia's Far North. More ...
CCRC RADF GRANTS OUT NOW
Closing
Friday 19th March for project not commencing for 13th April,
2010.
Advertising
will appear in the Advocate and Tully Times. Hard copy application kits have been left with all four council libraries
and also the Tully and Innisfail Customer Service counters.
The SEED Applications NOW OPEN
The Seed aims to help Australian artists from any background, creating art and music across any genre, to establish themselves
as self-sustained, professional artists.
The Seed has evolved over the years to become an integral part of the Australian Arts & Music industry,
contributing over $533,000 worth of funding to over 200 Artists and Music Managers. The passion and support of all
contributors has helped to make it what it is today and although John Butler and co-founder Danielle Caruana will remain a
driving force behind the project, they believe it is time to make The Seed something that the arts community
can call their own.
Applications Due: Monday 15th March 2010
Final successful applicants notified: 3rd May 2010 Funds dispersed: After 1st June
2010 Acquittal due: 30 days from completion of project
In 2010, Q Music and the Gold Coast City Council will again work closely together to continue to deliver
a cutting edge program that delivers tangible outcomes for Gold Coast artists and the Gold Coast Music Industry.
Part
of the program is a full day workshop open to the public:
Songwriting/Recording and Production
Workshop Sat 27th March This full day workshop will cover songwriting, recording and production which are
both important aspects in developing your career within the industry. More ...
Valentine's Day Traditions
Traditions are special things that we do each and every year that are unique to our family. Traditions that we learn in
childhood can be passed on to our own children when we become adults. What are your Valentine’s Day traditions? If you
don’t have any, this year is the perfect time to start.
Take a family portrait. Remember each Valentine’s Day with a picture to commemorate the moment. Choose to wear clothes
that reflect the day. Everyone’s outfit can include red, white, and pink in some fashion. Each year you will see how
the family grows and changes from the year before. Also each year, family members can take turns finding the perfect picture
frame to hold the photo.
What about a story? Valentine’s Day is named after St. Valentine. No one knows for sure if he was real or a work
of fiction, but it is fun to tell the variations of the story to lend meaning to the day. Whether real or imagined, St. Valentine
championed the cause of love. The story of Cupid comes from Roman mythology as he was the son of Aphrodite who was the goddess
of love.
Give your kids something that is real - the story of your love. Parents can retell the story of how they met and fell in
love. There is nothing more intriguing than a story of true love. Other family members can share their stories of love as
well. This is a way of passing stories down through the generations - an ancient practice that started before there were written
records.
Watch a touching movie. The movies don’t have to be sappy chick flicks. Once the kids become teenagers, especially
the boys, they will want out of this tradition, especially if the movies are too mushy. The movie can have aspects of love
whether it is friendship, family bonds, or the boy-girl kind of love. Stories of love give kids a strong sense of its meaning
so that they are prepared to show and receive love from others as they grow up.
Play a game that tells what each person in the family loves about each of the other family members? Each person will get
a chance to write down on a piece of paper what they love about one another. Anonymously, every family member writes their
thoughts on a separate slip for mom, dad, brother, sister, and so on.
The papers are put in a basket or a small box
that is owned by each person. Family members take turns reading aloud what has been written about them. It’ll feel good
to know that you are loved and respected by your family.
Valentine’s Day traditions help us teach our kids about love. We grow closer as a family and learn to depend on each
other no matter what when we create Valentine’s Day traditions such as the ones mentioned here.
Here's an independent traveler's opinion of a 24-day bird-watching tour they undertook. Click here
The tour included from the outskirts of Cairns to Daintree Village to the Julatten area to Atherton to Mission Beach
and back to Cairns which was a good birding circuit.
Of the 240 bird species they saw in Far North Queensland, 55 are endemic to Australia and 12 are endemic to only Queensland.
Of the 183 non-Australian Endemic bird species seen, they had only seen 12 species before in North/Central/South America;
i.e. there were 171 new species for them. Overall, 95% of the birds they saw in Far North Queensland were new for them.
NASA's
return to the moon mission will be grounded, but $5.9 billion over the next 5 years will be given to the agency to encourage
private companies to build, launch and operate their own spacecraft for the benefit of NASA and others. NASA will be paying
the fare for US astronauts to be passengers aboard these crafts.
The private space race takes off as NASA's shuttle program winds down, companies hurry to fill the void. Details ...
Who to Watch in Private Space Taxi Field - Start-ups, aerospace
giants ready to take NASA's place in ferrying astronauts up to orbit. Details ...
FEB 9TH LAUNCH
NASA is sending a new mission into space to observe the surface of the sun so as to unlock
the secret of solar storms and other chaotic activities.
The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), scheduled to be launched Feb 9, will spend five
years in the space to observe how sunlight is generated. It will try to trace causes of extreme solar activities, such as
sun spots, solar winds and flares. Details ...
Launch:Feb. 9, 2010, 10:30 a.m. EST
(SDO) set to launch from Florida:## NASA's SDO departs no earlier than 10:30 a.m. EST on Feb. 9; on an unprecedented mission to study
the sun and its dynamic behavior.
Onboard telescopes will scrutinize sunspots and solar flares using more pixels and colors than
any other observatory in the history of solar physics. And SDO will reveal the sun’s hidden secrets in a prodigious
rush of pictures. READ.
Astronauts are so last season. Have a look at ROBONAUT
Universe Timeline
FoxNews.com
Happy Birthday, Universe
(Give or Take a Few Dozen Millennium)
FOXNews.com
New analysis of data from NASA's space satellites has refined the age of the universe to precisely 13.75 billion years,
give or take 110 million years. More ...
Sydney was only 22 years old and Governor Bligh had been deposed and had fled to Van Dieman's Land. Queensland would
be another 50 years in the waiting.
Governor Macquarie arrived the beginning of January 1810 and took control and started to put things right. By the second
month of his autocratic reign he had the power of life and death in a penal settlement just coming out of "infantile imbicility".
This week, 200 years ago, the entire populace - the prisoners, the free, the military and civil - were being lined up
and accounted for over the entire settlement. Punishment was flogging and work on a Road Gang for 12 months. Things were pretty
tough in those days!
The 102nd Regiment was being replaced by Macquarie's 73rd Regiment. Debts were being called in and enlistment to the
remaining Corp attempted.
But read on for yourself. This was the only newspaper allowed in the infant Sydney Town - Sydney Gazette and New
South Wales Advertiser 1810 - a back-to-back 2 page weekly issued on Sundays. Crammed mostly with Government edicts but
you can 'see' what ordinary life must have been like.
Click above and see what Australians were doing their Australia Day 1810. 200 years ago.
World Islands - Dubai
Taken from space
“Queensland
National Parks - refer to DERM”
Some locals are still referring tourists to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) website. The EPA no
longer exists in Queensland. It is now part of the Department of Environment and Resource Management.
If you're looking for up-to-date national park information in Queensland please refer to http://www.derm.qld.gov.au/parks/ and search on the region or park name (if you know it) that you're after.
Some of the old EPA links still work, others don't, so I'd encourage destination experts and other locals
to direct people to the correct place. The old EPA links will not remain open for too much longer and there's nothing worse
than referring a visitor to "page not found".
Recommenced again for 2010. Playing at Innisfail State College each Tuesday evening. Any muscians welcome from beginner
to advanced. Ph Richard Graham 0407590758 for further info
INNISFAIL UNITING CHURCH
Church times are as follow... October - April 9.00am May - September 9.30am
Sunday School Runs at the same time
as church and there are small groups that operate during the week.
For Tully, Mission Beach and Cardwell, you should
contact Rev. Mosese Fangupo 07 4068 1132 uctully@bigpond.com
Mayor Bill Shannon and Councillors of the Cassowary Coast Regional Council extend an invitation to the general public to
tour the refurbished Council offices at 70 Rankin Street Innisfail.
The tour will be conducted between the hours of 10.00 a.m - 2.00 p.m on Wednesday, 17th
February, 2010.
Disaster relief funding for areas affected by Cyclones
Qld Emergency Services Minister Neil Roberts announced disaster relief funding arrangements have been
extended to an additional 14 local government areas.
Mr Roberts said joint State and Federal Natural Disaster Relief
and Recovery Assistance (NDRRA) had been activated for the councils in the gulf and Far North Queensland regions which have
received heavy rain, associated flooding and damaging winds, as a result of ex-Tropical Cyclones Olga and Neville.
“Assistance
has been activated for Aurukun, Kowanyama, Cairns, Lockhart River, Cassowary Coast, Northern Peninsula, Cook, Pormpuraaw,
Croydon, Tablelands, Etheridge, Wujal Wujal, Hope Vale and Yarrabah Shire Council’s” Mr Roberts said.
“These
arrangements will provide assistance and help rebuild damaged public infrastructure.
“Under the NDRRA, councils
will be able to access funding to cover the cost of restoring essential public assets as well as the cost of counter disaster
operations.
“The assistance does not currently extend to personal hardship, however the situation will continue
to be monitored for any cases of personal hardship,” he said.
This takes the number of NDRRA activated shires
to 37, including councils activated after heavy rainfall and associated flooding in Northern, Central and South Western Queensland
during late December early January.
Do you know what these are?
They have something to do with Sally Moroney and Q150.
This song was written for Vincent Van Gogh, as a tribute by Don McLean, in the seventies.
It
is rumoured that Van Gogh's painting of the 'starry nights' was painted during the time he was in an asylum and that
he sold only one painting during his lifetime as he was not recognized.
That's perhaps what caused him to fall
into an abyss of depression which eventually led to his suicide.........how tragic to have felt so hopeless and
misunderstood in spite of being so gifted! It was a pity that medical science was not so advanced at that time.
Sit
back and be enthralled by the works [paintings] of Vincent Van Gogh.
Committment from the CCRC to fund and construct our Aquatic Facility in the very
near future
Annual General Meeting of Mission Beach Aquatic and Recreation Club Inc
on Monday Feb. 15th, 7pm, Mission Beach Resort. Please be there – we now need to consult with
Council on the pool design and progress our S&R Fund application with Council so we need young families involved.
Discover Mission Beach has committed to a small booth on the Esplanade in Cairns, on the outside of the Night Markets PURELY to promote Mission Beach and its businesses.
Tens of thousands of people walk past this location every day. A large TV screen will showcase all attractions along with
brochures and business cards. The booth will be open 12 hours a day 7 days a week for an initial 12 month period. Without
a Cairns-presence Mission Beach has always missed out on sending visitors and tourists southward.
Local businesses are asked to particpate and support this important project with financial pledges to
set up and provide funds for on-going operational costs. Please contact Karen Thomson 0401 308 423 Discover Mission Beach
4051 4493
BUSINESS PLAN CONSULTANT - JOHNSTONE SHIRE HALL
Expressions of Interest (EOI No: 0910-023) are being called from suitable qualified consultants to prepare a Business Plan
for the refurbished Johnstone Shire Hall.
Please contact Council’s Community Relations Officer – Kim Agli on(07) 4030 2250 for an Information Package.
Expressions of Interest close on 26th March, 2010.
Salon By Anna
8-12 Cutten Street, Bingil Bay
By Appointment
Phone Now 4068 7116
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Attended last Hair & Beauty Expo at Sydney's Darling Harbour
The latest in Cut & Design for the whole family
Satisfaction Guaranteed
With over 30 years experience in the Hairdressing & Beauty Industry
Past Member of Inter-Coiffure NSW - A world organization for elite Master Hairdressers
Provider: Department of Communities Amount: $554,800 recurrent
funding, $1 million Capital funding Closing date: 19 February 2010
Objective: The goal of the Consumer Operated Services Program is to deliver an individualised,
flexible and responsive consumer-operated service that will assist consumers to develop self-management of personal crises
with a focus on:
the development of personal wellness within a recovery framework that is supported by trained peer workers
an agreed range of support for agreed outcomes, at the level of both the individual and the program
support to individuals to enable links with a range of community stakeholders to sustain community integration and social
connectedness, so that individuals may not require ongoing formal supports to sustain living in their community but develop
informal supports.
Cassowary Drive - Walkway/Bikeway area
Increased Risk
on Cassowary Drive
Strong
concerns are held for the population of cassowaries at Mission Beach over the holiday period with the anticipated increase
of traffic to the area.
It can be anticipated that
there will be an increased and hurried flow of traffic along all roads at Mission Beach leading up to and over the holiday
period particularly on Cassowary Drive.
Several adult
cassowaries, one with four chicks regularly try to cross along a 300 metre section of this busy road.
C4 has
designed and is placing temporary signs to help alert drivers to the increased risk for cassowaries attempting to cross on
this already high risk 80 km/h stretch of road called Cassowary Drive.
Motorists are
asked to be extra careful and watch out for cassowaries on roads at Mission Beach this holiday season and to observe the signs.
History of Queensland communities
online
On 29 November at the Community Cabinet meeting
at Forest Lake, the Premier officially launched Queenslandplaces.com.au. It’s an exciting new public website with over 1,100 illustrated entries on all
the cities, towns, suburbs and villages in Queensland that now have or once had populations of 500 or more.
Queenslandplaces.com.au, developed by The University of Queensland with the support of the Queensland Government,
is a great new educational resource for teachers, students, family historians, and visitors to Queensland. The site contains
more than 5000 historic photographs, postcards, colour slides and other illustrations.
Cassowary Elmo
follows Glissandra the Glider
Children's author and teacher Pamela Galeano has written a picture book about cassowaries following the success of
her book about mahogany gliders, Glissandra the Glider.
Elmo the Orphan was inspired by events that
happened following the official release of an actual orphaned cassowary called Elmo into rainforest on the Galeano farm at
Lower Tully.
The heart-warming story is beautifully illustrated by Christine Jenkins of Tully Heads.Her life-long connection with the wildlife of the CassowaryCoast
is evident as she adds detail to highlight the humour in the story.
As children enjoy Elmo's adventures, Pam and Christine are happy they will be learning about one of our special wildlife
treasures.
Local historian and author, Peter Kellett, recently launched his book "River Reflections" which tells the tales of the
tiles on 8 panels along Innisfail's riverfront. This artwork was completed in 1999 by local artists under the direction of
Sam di Mauro.
This book gives substance to the stories depicted in the tiles and gives depth to the history and events of the local
area.
Copies of “River Reflections” are available from Innisfail and Tully Information Centres and Council Libraries
– cost $17.00
Queensland celebrates its 150th aniversary this year but few people realise that it is also the 125th anniversary of the
Cutten family founding their tropical empire at what was then generally known as Clump Point, now Bingil Bay, outside of Mission
Beach.
They were the pioneers of the tea industry in Australia, with the base stock of Nerada being taken from the Bingil Bay
area in the 1970s. The New Guinea tea plantations were also derived from that stock. Another enterprise was the export of
200,000 lbs of coffee to local and overseas markets under the 'Bicton' label, making them the largest coffee producer in Australia
at the time.
The Cutten brothers took up their homestead selections in late July 1884, which made it for many years the only coastal
settlement between Cardwell and Innisfail, being then known as Geraldton and only a few years old itself. .... More
Photo: Karl Dekok (Tropicats)
Photo courtesy Liz Gallie
Blank pages for writers to fill
WritingRaw.com is a FREE literary sharing website (like YouTube but for the literary
world) where writers can upload, view and share their writing. The only restriction is that the material
cannot be illegal in any sense of the word (such as child porn, plagiarism, etc.). Other then that, feel free to post in any
of the following categories:
Our goal at Writing Raw is simple - to serve the literary community with the opportunity to have their work online and out in the world. Who knows
who may see it! In this world of disappearing literary magazines, Writing Raw is providing the blank pages for writers to fill.
To view someone’s writing, just click on the link and a .pdf version (Acrobat Reader
must be installed on your computer – click here if you do not already have it) of the piece will open in your browser.
Read it, comment on it, vote for it to be a showcased piece! Most important - ENJOY IT.
There is no catch here – all writings will be posted. Let’s create a world where no one rejects
a writer or the work of their future masterpiece.
In an attempt to display the many talents possessed by
many many people in our community, an artists register has been established on Cassowary
Coast News. A $10 yearly registration charge applies to all artists.
To register simply download the Artist's Information Form
which also contains the Consent Form that must be sent back to 26 Bingil Bay Road, Bingil Bay Qld 4852 before inclusion on
the register. Email .jpg's or send hard copy for scanning.
Have a quick look at the Directory and you will see that there is a lot of cross-referencing of talents,
so give consideration to what you want to be included under.
Trade Arts are also included. Paypal is available for purchasing
over the internet. Your door to sustainability.
Registration includes listing of ALL Goods and Services in CCN Directory where customers can target you and see your
entire range on YOUR growing webpage, while front-page announcements will lead them to your specials and products. PayPal
can also be arranged for direct purchases from website. Download Goods & Services Directory to complete inventory details
and set up a Catalogue. Reasonable sliding scales apply for very high volume users.
Not-for-Profit organisations - $100per year ($2 per week)
Own growing webpage with all the announcements you like - monthly reports, membership notices and any piece of information
that might interest CCN readers. Proof of Not-For-Profit status required.
All advertisers simply need to send copy and pics (.jpg's) to Cassowary Coast News and it will be uploaded to your page with appropriate front-page Editorial coverage. Your chance to have a
local and international web-presence.
Artists - Directory space. Download Consent and Registration Form and send to 26 Bingil Bay Road, Bingil
Bay Qld 4852. List all your talents with pics of your various artistic interests. Please send $10 for one year's registration
to Cassowary Coast News. PayPal available for on-line purchases of artists' work.
Want to know what is going on or check for Date Claimers
then these pages will help. While all care is taken in assembling this information please check with organisers
as details may change.
(07) 4030 2250 
